LIU Brooklyn Department of Social Sciences

04/17/2025

Our Model UN team was just named “Outstanding Delegation!” Congratulations!

05/16/2024

Congratulations class of 2024! These amazing Social Science and Political Science students just graduated!

05/15/2023

Congratulations to LIU Softball!

“🎬 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙎𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣: 𝘈 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘮 🤩Starring: , the 2023 champs x 🏆”

04/18/2023

Congratulations to our award winning Model UN team on another outstanding conference!

06/23/2022

Paid Internship!

05/04/2022

Professor Yafeng Xia featured on BBC Mundo discussing Chinese nationalism

China genera fascinación en Occidente, pero también causa temor por su creciente poder y su régimen opaco.En los últimos años, Pekín y los países occidentale...

04/14/2022

An event sponsored by my colleagues in the Polk school. Join us!

03/03/2022

02/22/2022

Join our Students this Thursday at LIU BK!

12/10/2021

In the aftermath of World War II and less than a year after the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President Harry Truman appointed Eleanor Roosevelt to the United States delegation to the United Nations. Within months, she was nominated to lead the Human Rights Commission. Creating a document to define universal human rights was the first priority. Through exhaustive debates over the next three years, Mrs. Roosevelt strove to draft a declaration that could serve as a counterforce to the fear and horror exposed by World War II. She insisted that it was written in clear accessible language so that it could be readily embraced by people around the world. Finally, on the night of December 10, 1948 - 73 years ago today - the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 217A, better known as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Declaration has since been translated into over 500 languages. Article 1 reads, "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." Article 3 is closely related, saying "Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person." The Declaration, in addition to touching on political rights, also covers economic rights as well. For instance, Article 23 states, "Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment."

While not all countries observe the Declaration, it is often referenced by people and groups struggling to meet basic standards of freedom and opportunity around the world. Thank you, Mrs. Roosevelt.

Photo of the Eleanor Roosevelt statue in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial by National Park Service.